Russia's President Vladimir Putin has called for reinforcing the country's military nuclear potential in response to NATO’s planned build-up near Russian borders.

Saudi Arabia has forecast that its budget deficit for next year will be about $53 billion despite economic measures adopted by the government in response to low oil prices.

US President-elect Donald Trump is refusing to back out of his plan to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

Takfiri militant groups have expressed smoldering resentment over the liberation of Aleppo by Syrian government soldiers and allied fighters, describing the city's liberation as a “great loss” for foreign-sponsored terrorists fighting to overthrow the Damascus government.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on the final leg of a Central Asia tour that already took him to Armenia and Kazakhstan.

The European aviation giant, Airbus, has sealed a contract with the Iranian flag carrier, Iran Air, for the sale of 100 aircraft, worth over $18 billion dollars at list prices, to the Islamic Republic.

Iran and Kazakhstan have signed five agreements for cooperation on the second leg of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tour of the Central Asia.